Software Development Engineer in Test

At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members, and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2024.)

We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social and helps brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/.

We’re committed to innovation that empowers, not replaces. At MNTN, AI is a tool for growth, enhancing efficiency while keeping a people-first approach. Our goal is to streamline workflows and drive new solutions—without compromising the human element that makes our company great.

So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will build test automation infrastructure, harnesses, and tooling to help improve product quality and engineering productivity. You're detail oriented, have strong organizational skills, able to work independently, juggle multiple tasks at once, and maintain professionalism under pressure. You possess deep knowledge of software engineering tools, understand micro-services & data pipelines, and can drive design and implementation of automation execution of objectives in complex systems. You're a curious and collaborative visionary, someone excited about tackling the hard problems in technology and someone curious about machine learning and artificial intelligence tools & technologies.
MNTN is and always will be an engineering company that thinks big and takes risks. Together, we'll create and iterate on the products and tools of the future—for billions of users.

What you'll do:

• Own and drive the design, implementation, and delivery of test solutions using new or existing technologies that test major portions of software (e.g., significant component, set of features, applications or services) for large-scale, critical, and/or highly complex software within a squad development team.
• Create and maintain tools to measure the quality and integrity of data from ingestion through our pipelines to our data warehouse and reporting tools.
• Leverage manual and exploratory testing to inform your test automation and tooling priorities.
• Influence the product requirements and engineering architecture and write a significant portion of the code to verify the same.
• Ensure work is consistently high quality (e.g., maintainable, reliable, efficient, etc.) and incorporates best practices.
• Identify problems and propose solutions, taking on projects that identify and mitigate risk while measuring software quality.
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all team deliverables.
• Optimize test automation suite for test execution time, parallelization, and test hygiene.
• Promote, encourage, and champion the use of automated testing.
• Documentation: Maintain clear and concise documentation of test plans, cases, and defects.
• Feedback Loop: Work closely with the development team to report, track, and resolve defects. Provide feedback on product quality and features—schedule and lead meetings with development and product teams to discuss testing plans, priorities, and coverage.
• Stay Updated: Keep abreast of new testing tools, methodologies, and best practices related to test automation.
• You will analyze Production Support tickets and update test scripts to catch defects early.

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience testing backend applications, web services, APIs and UI.
• 3+ years of core programming experience with at least one software programming language like C#, Java, Kotlin, Go.
• Experience with SQL and database concepts.
• Experience with debugging and data analysis.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Javascript, Typescript.
• Ability to programmatically test any software product and drive QA automation.
• Experience with researching, debugging, analyzing, and building test tools & frameworks.
• Independent and entrepreneurial, showing the ability to work with minimal direction in a team.

MNTN Perks:

• 100% remote within the US
• Flexible vacation policy
• Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses
• Three-day weekend every month of the year
• Competitive compensation
• 100% healthcare coverage
• 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care
• Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development

About MNTN:

Our recruiters will always reach out using an email address ending with @mountain.com OR @mntn.com. If you’re contacted by someone without that address and they mention a Reference Code (which we never use), then that ain’t us folks. Tell those trolls to take a hike–you’re waiting to climb a MNTN.

MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct-response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue.

Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns all with the fastest go-live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including Build with Ferguson Master, OneWheel, Tarte, Decked, and National University.

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